Wife tells Wisconsin protestors that senator has run off with mistress
After the Republican victory over unions in the Wisconsin state house last week, Democrats need every victory they can get – even the weird ones. From the Raw Story:
Protesters who marched at the home of Wisconsin state senator Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac) were met with something of a surprise on Saturday. Mrs. Hopper appeared at the door and informed them that Sen. Hopper was no longer in residence at this address, but now lives in Madison, WI with his 25-year-old mistress….
Sen. Hopper has worked closely with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to implement the state’s new anti-labor laws and enact policies favorable to the interests of big business. Like Walker, Hopper is one of the Republican politicians named in a massive recall effort spearheaded by Wisconsin Democrats.
Hopper’s wife indicated she is willing to sign the recall petition. The family maid apparently has already done so.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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td
March 14th, 2011
9:35 pm
I can not believe you union supporting libs really believe that the Republicans are the rich ones and are trying to make the poor dems pay all of the taxes. Do you not know that there are way more rich Democrats then Republicans? Have you ever heard of Bill Gates (no union shops), Sam Walton (no union shops), Warren Buffet (Presidents counsel for economic policy) and George Soros? Are they all Republicans?
Wake u you libs this class warfare game the unions and elite liberals are telling you about is a plain fallacy.
OedipusTax
March 14th, 2011
9:43 pm
@tea for two – if you have a point besides the one on the top of your head, try to make it.
td
March 14th, 2011
9:45 pm
BRW
March 14th, 2011
9:12 pm
@LAST MAN $HITTING, You are a total moron. No one is reading your crap. You rate right down there with RB “USED TO BE” FROM GWINNETT.
Ding, Ding, Ding, Here we have another winner. A man/woman who is so uneducated that they can not write a cognitive thought. A man/woman so badly raised by a parent(s) that they have to resort to name calling instead of intellectually arguing ones position.
Please stop posting on these boards and go back to work. My septic tank is waiting for you to clean out.
Wikidum
March 14th, 2011
9:55 pm
I’m just askin…wasn’t the abandonment of the legislature tactic used in Texas/Oklahoma a few years ago?
CaseyMarion
March 14th, 2011
10:11 pm
Hopper’s mistress is a lobbyist, or at least was until “Persuasion Partners” lobbying company let her go today. Wisconsin’s tough lobbying laws prevent elected officials from accepting so much as a cup of coffee, or anything else of any value, from them. Ergo, Hopper is in ethics law violation territory as a result of his liaison.
BRW
March 14th, 2011
10:19 pm
@td, you live in your septic tank. Therefore I would not touch it. L.M.S., RBiG and you too, say the same worthless crap over and over. “Obama’s a muslim”, “Dems are the reason things stink”, “Newt’s an American hero”, etc. So you stop posting crap and I’ll stop throwing crap back at you. By the way, your insults hurt so badly, please don’t hurt me again
Please continue wasting your time by answering for LMS and your other lovers.
Bewal
March 14th, 2011
10:34 pm
To the idiot who agrees with the big corporations and the states with the right to work law, enjoy your 40 hour work week and the overtime unions fought for, so you could make a decent living. That’s only a few laws put into effect because of unions. These right to work states have higher unemployment and more people on welfare than none right to work states….. Check it out. So enjoy the perks unions bring you and open your eyes.
td
March 14th, 2011
10:51 pm
Bewal
March 14th, 2011
10:34 pm
Unions have a place in our country. They have been good for the nation as a whole but they have serious problems right now.
First: Unions do not belong in the public sector. The public sector employees should have civil service protections so that politics do not get into running the bureaucracy but a person should not come to work for the government to become rich (that is what the private sector is for). They should come and work because it is a calling to be a public servant.
2: Unions need to become politically neutral. Only supporting one political party is not good for the membership and it does nothing but create antagonism from the other party.
Lessons from Bill
March 14th, 2011
10:54 pm
Did the senator do it all with the 25 year old or just what clinton did with his intern?
td
March 14th, 2011
10:58 pm
BRW
March 14th, 2011
10:19 pm
So you can write a cognitive sentence and have a complete thought. That must mean that the name calling is due to the fact that you are do not like your belief system questioned. Are you not strong enough in your beliefs to defend them without having to sort to name calling?
JEC IV
March 14th, 2011
11:35 pm
td, the name-calling has been begun by your fellow conservatives. I long for the day that we can have an intelligent debate without the name-calling. However, I won’t be holding my breath.
I disagree with your notion that govt employees work for the government to get rich. Your assertion that working in the public sector is a calling. It would sound like to me that you’re suggesting that we, the taxpayers, low-ball our public servants.
That’s part of the reason why our education system stinks now. We live in a capitalist society. People don’t take jobs that don’t pay well. In order to gain or retain quality employees, the govt needs to compete with the rates of the private sector.
Mike Licht
March 14th, 2011
11:40 pm
So I guess Senator Hopper is what they call a “Newt Gingrich Republican.”
JEC IV
March 14th, 2011
11:46 pm
BTW, to those of you touting how the Senator divorced his wife, that doesn’t make it better. He still cheated and then left his wife for a 25 yr old. Either way, he’s not coming out looking like a winner.
td
March 15th, 2011
12:02 am
JEC IV
March 14th, 2011
11:35 pm
td, the name-calling has been begun by your fellow conservatives.
There is a difference between bashing your political adversary (politician) and another blogger. In both cases I beg to differ with your point that the conservatives started it. I rarely see one of the conservative bloggers just go out and call a liberal blogger names without them name calling ti begin with (I for one try not to name call at all no matter what the circumstance). I have seen conservatives calling the politicians names but I have seen a great deal more name calling from the liberals on these blogs. Again I have no problem with it on a political level from either side.
“I disagree with your notion that govt employees work for the government to get rich. Your assertion that working in the public sector is a calling. It would sound like to me that you’re suggesting that we, the taxpayers, low-ball our public servants”
I do not believe public servants should make more money on average than the taxpayers. I do not believe public workers should make more money then the Governor of the state. We have more than 200 people in the state of Georgia (non union state) making more than the Governor ($150,000 per year) and have a couple that make more than the President of the United States (see Michel Adams at UGA). This dose not mean I think they should not be compensated in other ways. I do not see anything wrong, for the sacrifice of salary, for the public sector employee to get more of a generous leave package then there privet sector peers and a reasonable retirement package (not making more in retirement than they made while working) and some job security (civil service rights).
Cheryl
March 15th, 2011
12:13 am
Let’s stop with the name calling. It does not further the conversation. We are all Americans and have the same wants and needs. Granted we may have a different way of getting to the same goal which is to do better and be better than our grand/parents AND to have a better world for our grand/children.
The fact that Randy Hopper ran on a “family values” platform and now has a mistress goes to his character. Many politicians have mistresses but not all of them campaigned on cherishing wife and family only to be proven a liar later.
This concept that government employees get rich working for state and local government is a lie. Public employees nationally make 3% less that their private sector counterparts. And yes that includes benefits packages. In Wisconsin public workers’ compensation is 25% less than their private sector counterparts. These are that facts.
Now if anyone wants to argue that public workers do not have the right to organize or to collectively bargain, the law makes that clear. Some public workers are barred from collectively bargaining BUT not all. What the REPUBLICAN house and senate passed in Wisconsin was anti-American, more than likely criminal and did nothing for the people of Wisconsin except create division where there were none.
Wisconsinites can look forward to law suits and special elections. Does Scott Walker have a line item in his budget to pay for these law suits? How about monies for the various special elections to be held later in the year? By not having a discussion on the front end it will cost everyone a fortune on the backend.
What in mindnumbing is that this has happened before. Scott Walker illegally ended collective bargaining in Milwaukee County for the public security officers. He immediately hired a private contractor and today that county is paying for twice as many security officers. Why because the courts found that Walker overreached. The officers were rehired with back pay and the private security firm which ran $400K over budget has a contract that can not be broken. Walker cost the county millions. And now he is repeating his folly on a state level. When this is over he and his buddies will be in DC making 7 figures lobbying for something and the people of Wisconsin will be cleaning up the mess, paying for mistakes later corrected by the courts and permanently divided because too many of you chose to be cheerleaders instead of citizens.
Teri
March 15th, 2011
1:06 am
Enter your comments here
young thing
March 15th, 2011
2:00 am
these 25 year olds looking for a sugar daddy—they can make you “feel young” again. The senator needs a lot of energy for his job making laws, so she should do the trick.
BRW
March 15th, 2011
8:11 am
It would not matter to you what my beliefs are td. You live out your dream here on the blogs as if you were “A Great American” just like Hannity and you listen to alternative view points even less then he. I would never engage your weak little mind in an actual debate because it’s too narrow to see the light. I see the same crap over and over and over again from about 4 or 5 of you guys on the AJC (even though you hate it I dare say you could not live without it) and it never waivers even when you are obviously wrong or totally out of touch with common sense. So you keep writing mostly repeated-from-Fox drivel and ocasionally I’ll write something worthless and ugly about you to make your day.
25 is Nice
March 15th, 2011
8:28 am
What’s the big deal? He dumps his old wife, pays her some nice alimony, and he gets a young chick to have some fun with. The ex-wife can take all that cash, get a boy toy and live the good life. This is a win-win deal for both sides.
Last Man Standing
March 15th, 2011
8:33 am
BRW:
“No one is reading your crap”
Apparently you are . . .
nancy swanson
March 15th, 2011
10:52 am
If this republican’s wife signed the recall efforts, then apparently he did what he did. Having had a similar thing happen to someone close, it is not a small thing. It is a type of abandonment and betrayal that can cause deep trauma. I find it interesting that people who are supportive of him rationalize this behavior. If this republican is supporting conservative and focus on the family based values, then those values should be lived.
MC
March 15th, 2011
11:27 am
Citizen
March 14th, 2011
4:16 pm
I would think the AJC or the “political insider” would quote more credible sources. Rawstory is a known progressive source who guesses/accuses wrongly with great consistency.
Yeah. They’re almost as bad and unreliable as FOX News. Both of their sources for info can’t be trusted.
MC
March 15th, 2011
11:28 am
BRW if you are a Hannity fan than it is you with the weak and narrow little mind.
MC
March 15th, 2011
11:31 am
Oooops. Sorry BRW. I jumped the gun. You are absolutely right about these shallow minded FOX fans. If it’s not a FOX talking point they have no thoughts at all.
MC
March 15th, 2011
11:36 am
Does Georgia have a recall law too? What fun it would be to force this state to hold election after election. After the expense of that maybe some of these ultra radical, ultra racist republicans can have some of the wind knocked out of their sails. There are enough petition signers in this state to really stick it to these bubbas. Let the petitions begin.
ANGRY AS HELL
March 15th, 2011
12:15 pm
It’s good to know that the “family Values” itinerary is held in such high regard by this other conservative, Republican state senator/ I’m sure the Wisconsin GOP is soooo proud!
Peter H. Coffin
March 15th, 2011
12:18 pm
Note that a similar case is happening in Indiana where the Secretary of State Charlie White is facing theft charges for accepting a salary for holding office for a district in which he did not live, as well as voter fraud and perjury charges. Moving in with your girlfriend in another district is serious business if you’re an elected official.
Martha Coyote
March 15th, 2011
1:11 pm
When the unions are busted, the only large money for the democrats is private contributions. They cannot match corporate money, which is now, since the Supreme Court decision, essentially unregulated. With a Republican majority in both house, and the Supreme court, the Republicans will run the country. Whenever they have come near that, in history, they gut social programs, outsource jobs, [as recommended by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,] and run up greater and greater deficits.
We will get jobs back when the working class works for the hours, in the conditions the employers care to set. Union pay and conditions set the standard. When they go down, so do private pay/standards. We have an 8 hour day, a 5 day week, vacations, overtime and employee compensations because of the unions. Oh, yes, and child labor laws. [My 4 great-uncles each went into the same coal mine that killed their father at age 11.] Think those laws will last without Democratic support? No, because we have a crisis! Gotta take money from social programs, [old, sick, poor, unemployed] and give it to the rich! The Republicans added two trillion to the deficit to give it to the rich, and they talk about shared sacrifice, and THE CRISIS.
yuzeyurbrane
March 15th, 2011
2:09 pm
It used to be that Republican scandals involved money and Democrats involved sex. Glad to hear they have libidos.
double
March 15th, 2011
10:01 pm
Sounds as if lost man standing knows about three-somes.With a name Hopper what you expect?
double
March 15th, 2011
10:03 pm
Name calling.From the post I have read Lost man and TD are at the top of list.
Bonnie
March 15th, 2011
10:31 pm
Why don’t everyone grow up.Did everyone like the 1950’s?well the union’s were strong job’s were good.Stop acting like you are cheering on a ball team between the right and left. Right is right and wrong is wrong.Some of you say what are we teaching are kid’s when the senators left the state,and we cheer them on.Do you think it ’s ok to belittle our president?All republicans are not christain,and all democrat,s are not non believers.We have always enjoyed a democracy,this is NOT a democracy Scott Walker has raped the people of their voices ,i for one want mine back.he seems to be the most non patriotic , non ameirican, non christain i have seen in a long time.I only say these things because this is what he said he was,how sad that our voices have been shut down
CurtJa
March 15th, 2011
10:48 pm
This Republican sex scandal won’t be complete until the woman involved hangs herself (as did the madame in the David Vitter case) and the guy is reelected. Because, let’s face it, conservative women like abusive relationships where the husband cheats on her because it proves he’s a “real man.”
tini tiny
March 16th, 2011
11:16 am
why spend a dollar on ajc to pay this guy salary
TLamar
March 16th, 2011
12:57 pm
It would be right if the Governor of Wisconsin hadn’t made a pack with the Koch brothers and was honest about trying to get the state’s budget defict down. However, I agree to move with such speed to get this bill passed to remove all collective bargining rights, something in the milk isn’t clean. However, you can rested assured the governor will not serve two terms.
Mike
March 16th, 2011
1:52 pm
Just a couple of comments here. One, unions aren’t perfect by a long shot, some would even say they almost caused the complete demise of the U.S. auto industry. But just think about it: were it not for unions we’d all be working 60-70 hours a week for minimum wage (or less), with no overtime pay,no benefits and no paid time off. Second, rich people DO NOT create jobs; they take a financial risk and invest in a product or service. We the consumers create job opportunites: if we show no interest in a company’s product or service then that business goes under; between 80 and 90 percent of all small businesses go under.
buddy_h
March 16th, 2011
2:11 pm
Does he have proof of paying utilities and renter insurance, change of license, lease agreement, did he re-file all his disclosure info — and did he tell voters he had changed address? How many days does he live there and how much time does he spend in that area at grocery stores — does he interact with the community or just have this fake life where he claims he lives in this shell … scam??? What a fraud… I hope he gets fined, along with being tossed out for fraud!
Bubba_dud
March 16th, 2011
5:05 pm
The thing that upsets me is that people like hopper shop at Tea-baager-Mart and then pretend to be Christian republicans who are above God’s law! If Hopper could get away with it, he’d be seducing younger children at high schools!
amazedlowlong
March 18th, 2011
9:56 pm
hoppers wife caught him a year ago, cheating with an intern. she wanted him and he on only wanted the intern. he took her out in public. he thought he could get divorced before the truth was found out. wife was afraid so she told the truth he didnt live so leaver her and her kids alone. she has proof.